31 May, 2011

RATKO MLADIC'S SIEGE OF SREBRENICA

General Ratko Mladic is currently resting in his prison cell at the Hague'sInternational Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. He slaughtered thousands of Bosniaks, Serbs and Croats who were loyal to the Bosnian government's fight for democracy and freedom. His troops killed at least 10,000 residents of the besieged Sarajevo, including many children.
Two years before the Srebrenica genocide, Mladic's troops slaughtered children and youth in the elementary school in Srebrenica -- the event known as the1993 Srebrenica Children Massacre. Many Bosniak civilians died of hunger in the besieged Srebrenica. In Winter of 1993, approximately 5,000 Bosniaks died of hunger in the besieged enclaves terrorized by Mladic's troops. In the first three months of the Srebrenica siege, Ratko Mladic's forces burned 296 Bosnian Muslim villages around Srebrenica -- and this was more than three years before the Srebrenica massacre.
Dutchbat (Dutch UN Peacekeepers) prevented General Mladic from killing women and children of Srebrenica during the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide, but they could not prevent rapes and other abuses. General Ratko Mladic ordered his troops to rape Bosniak women and girls in Srebrenica: "Keep the good ones over there. Enjoy them." He told the Bosniak men and boys the massacre awaits them: "There will be blood up to your knees."

Mladic was at the scene of the massacre at Srebrenica when men and boys were lined up for executions. He also publicly admitted killing Avdo Palic, Bosnian army commander who negotiated cease-fire in the Zepa enclave.
You can search our archive to learn more about Radovan Karadzic's and Ratko Mladic's war crimes in Bosnia. For now, we will turn our attention to the besieged Srebrenica. Here are some documents and testimonies you may wish to read:

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Srebrenica Genocide is not a matter of anybody's opinion; it's a judicial fact recognized first by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and subsequently by the International Court of Justice.